Thus Always to Tyrants
a c a n t h a - c h a n
Authoress' Note & Disclaimer: Unlike the only other drabble/one-shot (if you consider it long enough) I wrote that feautured Princess Ai, there will be no Hikaru bashing; because I like Hikaru, with no regard for his sexuality - which you can plainly see if you read that little bit in the Literature section on my profile. He's cute. Also, his taste in clothing, paired with Ai's absurdly spectacular fashion sense, is fantasmical. That is a word, right?
By the way, I don't own the Princess Ai copyrights.
Just so you know.
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He loved her.
There was no other way to put it.
Not an angel, not a dougen, but not a monster in human clothing either. She was a savior, something he felt should have been a cause for pride among the human populace, that they were blessed with such a pure soul amongst them.
It was funny, though, how the best people in your life could break your heart like that.
Hell, he'd even go so far as to say she'd not only broken it into bits, she'd played with those pieces, stuck them in unsavory places, gnawed the edges to razor-sharp points; and then molded them back together as only a diva could, only to break them for a final time - the only time he'd let go of her of his own accord.
("It's for her own good, Nora," Oruha said: she was his only accomplice in her transportation to Earth and the discovery of a lifetime.)
Sure, it wasn't the sort of fairy tale romance she'd always expected (and Ai had said as much to him, at least), but there was a sense of completion that another being could give you that was fullfilling and worthy of astonished scrutiny by any number of people. Furthermore, said people not were often not only misguided but inexperienced in matters of the heart as well.
But where once a pair of jaded forest eyes had occupied a little corner - no, more like a huge chunk - of his soul now dwelled another woman.
(Oruha was no longer 'not much more than a sister.' He wondered if loving more than one woman made him a two-timer, a player, a cheating fool, or any other particularly malicious verbal insults that he'd picked up from Tess.)
However, there, too, had the 'Second Revolution' made another place in his heart - Ai had once again managed to snag his attention and hang onto it for far longer than almost any other woman.